Actress Valerie Harper, 74, testified before a Senate committee, urging Congress to commit more funding to cancer research. Harper, who has been fighting cancer, told senators she is a year and four months past the time doctors gave her to live.

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Valerie Harper: "Year and four months past my expiration date"

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Actress Valerie Harper, 74, testified before a Senate committee, urging Congress to commit more funding to cancer research. Harper, who has been fighting cancer, told senators she is a year and four months past the time doctors gave her to live.